let's bring in jim hansen who served as u.s., in the u.s. army forces and the middle east forum chief editor. jim, good morning to you. what is the message israel wanted to send with the strike inside of iran? >> happy birthday, ayatollah. i think they basically pointed out that they can hit any place or anything or anyone that they want to in iran, which is particularly embarrassing after iran launches a massive barrage, which israel emperor and them like flies. so, i think it shows basically that did not have to do more and they won the first round by defeating iran's attack and now they are showing they can spike the football in the end zone and tell iran, we are not going to do that. they also pointed out a very nice new program we have got there and it would be a shame if anything happened to it. all of those were designed to remind iran israel has the upper hand. it's been with the question becomes does iran respond and ie off-ramp that both sides wanted and it's over from here. >> i would be highly surprised if it is over. i don't thi

a special forces vet and world strat president jim hansen joins me know.ally going on here? >> it is impossible to know for certain but like you, jesse, i find it particularly convenient to that right now when the ukraine money train is going off the rails, all of a sudden this story gets resurrected after the government said it did not happen and we have putin shooting death star beams at our diplomats in order to get everybody riled up. i think it is pretty unlikely. these weapons exist, there's no question about that, we have them. but the idea that this is now 60 minutes, very credible source there, and some anti- putin russian media, i don't find it very credible. >> so why would 60 minutes push this if it does benefit the ukraine situation? and then have the entire federal government say it is baloney? >> that is the piece that does not quite fit together. because usually the regime it media is doing the bidding of the regime. and in this case, they seem to have a disconnect. i don't know why the government, if this is happening, i don't know why the

jim hansen, thank you very much for your insight in your time. appreciate. thank you. jim good talking with you. likewise. well, speaking of president trump, he was he had a rally last night and he talked about this issue as it was unfolding in shanksville, pennsylvania. here's president trump, i want to say god bless the people of israel. they're under attack right now. that's that's because we show great weakness. it would not happen. the weakness that we've shown is unbelievable, and it would not have happened if we were in office. you know that. they know that. everybody knows that. but america prays for israel. we send our absolute support to everyone in harm's way. this is an attack that would not have happened. i mean, to think about to think about what we have to go through, ukraine would have never happened. israel attack both october 7th and today would have never happened. then he blamed price gouging and junk fees. but all of america knows that the real blame for this nightmare lies with one person crooked joe biden. so that was donald trump. clearly very pr

i mentioned jim hansen. he's the one who was radicalized by venus. he worked closely every president and was himself, even though he was a big voice on this issue, registered. then he became an independent. scientists in general tend, not to be democrats because they want to be sort of they often lone wolves. and so they will register as independents anyway, he really had hopes for obama. and then when obama broke his heart he said that is he called obama. it's so sad to read because love president obama but he called his presidency a dismal failure and then he said that we can only really expect relief, the courts and not politics. and i always think hansen dr. hansen is a wise person to follow. and what else else if not? you don't have to. it's not mandatory. okay let's let's go to the other side. so last week, the securities and exchange commission just published new rules requiring public companies mandate climate change disclosures been looked forward to for a long. so very exciting that's out there. just wanted to get each of your opinions on w

now seen in legal commentator, former trump white house lawyer jim scholz, and national security attorney bradley moss. welcome to the hansen friday edition of cnn news central well, i want to read you part of the transcript from yesterday that could be in the jury's minds as they are waking up this morning. this is david pecker on direct, so this is the prosecutor, josh steinglass, talking to him. were you aware that expenditures by corporations made for the purpose of influencing an election made in coordination with or at the request of a candidate or a campaign? are unlawful david pecker says, yes. steinglass says, did either you or ami ever report to the federal election commission that ami had made a donation to of care, a payment to karen mcdougal. pecker says, we did not sign. glas says, why did ami and make this purchase of karen mcdougal story? pecker says, we purchased a story so it won't be published by any or other organization steinglass asked why did you not want it to be published by any other organization? pecker says, i didn't want we didn't want the story to embarrass mr. trump or embarrassed or hurt that